s playing. I stood and listened for about ten minutes to what was the greatest live version of “Free Bird” that I had ever heard. When the man finished I offered him some money not so people would see me doing but because I thought his performance was well worth it. The man just smiled at me and declined it saying, “no thanks, your applauds are all the payment I was looking for.” That was the moment in my life when I realized the world had it all wrong and society was blind. I was twelve years old. Since that day I’ve been on a quest to in some way show the world what I was fortunate enough to learn. I’ve tried in many ways to show my peers that it’s ok to do your own thing and not follow others. Often I’ve just been criticized for my actions and told that I was being ridiculous, which in a few extreme cases was true, but I didn’t let that stop me. Over the past six years of my life I’ve crawled out of what could be called the filth of society and established myself as an “outstanding young man” in order to get people to notice my examples I’m trying to set. Of course I totally despise myself for the levels I’ve stooped to in order to get where I am today. Never the less, I believe if you’re going to do something right u might as well go all out. So I guess by writing this I’m trying to finalize the actions that have taken place in my life during what are suppose to be the most important years of a teens life. Perhaps this book will help open a few eyes and turn a few heads but more then likely it will just be criticized and manipulated my several people that are just afraid of the honest to god truth of the lives that we live. Yet, if it does only change one persons view on things and helps them to make at least one decision on their own then I shall be satisfied. Chapter Two Well I guess the best place to begin this venture into my own real...